{"id":399,"date":"2018-12-06T12:29:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T12:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuffrey-wijne.com\/?page_id=399"},"modified":"2025-02-12T18:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T18:26:48","slug":"research-training-course-for-people-with-intellectual-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tuffrey-wijne.com\/?page_id=399","title":{"rendered":"Researchers with learning disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Employing researchers with learning disabilities<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KI2XEDJ0oBQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><em><br>Leon Jordan, Amanda Cresswell and Richard Keagan-Bull talk about their job at Kingston University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We currently employ five researchers with a learning disability, working part-time on various projects. These colleagues are not just advisors for specific aspects of the work, but work on everything &#8211; planning, applying for funding, data collection, data analysis and dissemination.&nbsp;This is invaluable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ensuring that university staff procedures are accessible has not been straightforward, but worthwhile. Kingston University has a flexible HR department, willing to learn from us about making reasonable adjustments. We employ additional research staff with the specific remit to support our learning-disabled colleagues. We cost this into our research grant proposals, although this is usually very tight. Some of their time is funded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/access-to-work\">Access To Work<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/bld.12477\">See here<\/a> for an article we wrote about all this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have won awards for our inclusive way of working:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalldawards.co.uk\/winners-2023\/\">National Learning Disabilities &amp; Autism Award 2023<\/a> (&#8220;Employer of people with disabilities&#8221;)<br>Kingston University Inclusive Values Award 2023 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research training for people with learning disabilities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We held an 8-week research training course for 8 people with learning disabilities in Spring 2024.<br>You can read more about it in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.victoriaandstuart.com\/post\/65-piloting-on-online-research-course-for-people-with-learning-disabilities\">this blog post<\/a>, written by course leader Dr Andrea Bruun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No further courses are currently planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tuffrey-wijne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Group-photo-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1383 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tuffrey-wijne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Group-photo-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tuffrey-wijne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Group-photo-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tuffrey-wijne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Group-photo-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tuffrey-wijne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Group-photo-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tuffrey-wijne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Group-photo-1-619x464.jpg 619w, https:\/\/www.tuffrey-wijne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Group-photo-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Graduates and tutors of the 2024 Research, held at Kingston University<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Previous course (2019)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find out more about it here:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuffrey-wijne.com\/?p=618\">Blog post<\/a> (with lots of photos!)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/bld.12331\">Article<\/a> co-written with 8 of the course graduates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WN_aBOMVP4M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br><em>&nbsp;Short video about the article and the 2019 course<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-865 size-full\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tuffrey-wijne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Thumbs-up-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tuffrey-wijne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Thumbs-up-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tuffrey-wijne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Thumbs-up-619x373.jpg 619w, https:\/\/www.tuffrey-wijne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Thumbs-up.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Students and tutors on the 2019 Research Skills Course<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employing researchers with learning disabilities Leon Jordan, Amanda Cresswell and Richard Keagan-Bull talk about their job at Kingston University We currently employ five researchers with a learning disability, working part-time on various projects. 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